On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 10:25:50AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
The rule of thumb is that any file generated by config.status is a) reproducible by any user, b) dependent on configure options. Therefore, it is inappropriate to include such generated files in the tarball (for proof, Makefile is generated from Makefile.in; the former is not in the tarball while the latter is).
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diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am index 0b4ae9d..ecc7435 100644 --- a/Makefile.am +++ b/Makefile.am @@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ XML_EXAMPLES = \
EXTRA_DIST = \ ChangeLog-old \ - libvirt.spec libvirt.spec.in \ + libvirt.spec.in \
Actually that part is wrong. The libvirt.spec need to be in the tarball to allow to build rpms from it. This breaks for example "make rpm". I reverted that part of the patch, Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ daniel@veillard.com | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/